Director's Cut in theaters for July

[Symbiotic]

It just occured to me, what if they call it "The Absolute Edition"?

Heh. Absolute Watchmen? That would be awesome.

 

[Project862006]

From the newest issue of Wizard magazine (#211).

Wizard: Rorschach was my favorite character reading the book, but when I saw the flashback of Dr. Manhattan's origin, I fell completely in love with him. Did your opinion of any characters change throughout the filmmaking process?

Snyder: I kind of feel the same way, although Rorschach is making his way back around for me in some ways. While filming, Manhattan was my favorite, and now when I watch the movie, especially the director's cut because there are a couple of additional scenes that aren't even in the version I showed to the studio, Rorschach is. The director's cut is really Rorschach-heavy.

Wizard: Rorschach has this great scene where he encounters his landlord, who sold him out, but he lets her slide because she's in front of her kids. That seems like one of the smaller moments you had to lose.

Snyder: That's a big sequence in the book, which we did not shoot, that Jackie wanted to shoot. I was like, "Jackie, there's no way we're gonna have time in the movie to go back to your apartment and for you to run into your landlord." So he was like, "Okay." But it is a big scene and was hard to lose.

 

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The director's cut is really Rorschach-heavy

nice

 

[LegendaryCaleb]

i wanna see the freakin dc now

 

[Doctor Jones]

Me too. Man, this is gonna be hell waiting all this time.

 

[Bluefire]

http://www.mtv.com/movies/news/articles/1605378/story.jhtml

Kind of....

"The director's cut is three hours and 10 minutes and comes out in July," Snyder revealed, calling his original edit "considerably more violent than this ... and sexier" and explaining that if the movie does well, the director's cut will get a theatrical release in Los Angeles and New York.

yesh

 

[FlawlessVictory]

Considering that Snyder said that if the movie does well, the director's cut will be released in July, it looks as if this cut will go straight to DVD.

 

[hatebox]

Considering that Snyder said that if the movie does well, the director's cut will be released in July, it looks as if this cut will go straight to DVD.

I was wondering this myself - in its third weekend the movie hasn't even passed the 100 million mark. Can't see WB re-releasing this in theaters now, at least in any more than a few hundred. Distribution costs money.

 

[Duneboy]

If anything it'll be limited release like when TDK was released in Imax. Regardless I would see it again & support it.

 

[Peter McCabe]

I will def see this, hopefully there's alot more Jeffrey Dean Morgan in the DC

 

[ClarkLuther55]

Things I want to see (don't know if they'll actually be in the director's cut, probably not).

1. Jon's father throwing away his clock parts and tools, forcing him into studying science instead. This was important for the character; because it shows why early on, he felt that he wasn't in control of his life. In the theatrical version they just showed Jon working on watch, without showing why that backstory was actually important.

2. Rorschach blowing his psychologist's mind, destroying his happy and comfortable view of the world.

3. More done with Laurie and her relationship with the Comedian. Her scenes on Mars really fell flat.

 

[Duneboy]

Yeah there was certainly a lot of stuff not in the film adaptation & honestly, it took me a 2nd time to really appreciate the film more. The 1st time I went to see it, everything just seemed so rushed. I know that sounds odd measuring in at a what was it? 160 minutes? I felt a similar vibe when I 1st went to see Iron Man & TDK but after watching them a 2nd time I was really blown away. I dunno, I feel its just that trend of adapting comic properties into films has just gotten so trendy now. I love to read comics 1st & foremost! Heck, I'd take motion comics more so, lol.

 

[craigdbfan]

Zack Snyder Confirms the Directors Cut for July

"Director of the Year Zack Snyder: Says they will do a limited run of the director's cut of Watchmen in July in theaters. At least he says it should still happen, but he said no IMAX re-release"

Source

 

[LegendaryCaleb]

a lil late, pimpin...its all good though
http://forums.superherohype.com/showthread.php?t=319851

 

[craigdbfan]

Whoopsie daisy! thanks for notifying me Caleb.


Actually this is a confirmation and I believe it was only presumed before but I should have posted it in that thread.

 

[SuperFerret]

I hope it comes out in the time I'm home so I can see it with my friends.

 

[Kane52630]

i hope it shows in Dallas

 

[S.D. Plissken]

i hope it shows in Dallas

I doubt it, probably just the standard 'NY & LA' deal.

 

[Sparta*]

Can't freakin wait for the directors cut of this movie....more Watchmen goodness for all!!!

 

[Hurm...]

Is there any, ANY chance whatsoever that this will be released in Toronto?

 

[Motown Marvel]

it'd be rad if snyder actually toured the film around the country.

 

[AVEITWITHJAMON]

Things I want to see (don't know if they'll actually be in the director's cut, probably not).

1. Jon's father throwing away his clock parts and tools, forcing him into studying science instead. This was important for the character; because it shows why early on, he felt that he wasn't in control of his life. In the theatrical version they just showed Jon working on watch, without showing why that backstory was actually important.

2. Rorschach blowing his psychologist's mind, destroying his happy and comfortable view of the world.

3. More done with Laurie and her relationship with the Comedian. Her scenes on Mars really fell flat.

I actually thought they showed the most important parts of that sequence in the movie, the fact that Jon knew how to fit the components of a watch together explicitely always indicated to me in the book and the movie, that this is how he knew how to pull himself back together after the accident.

 

[Doctor Jones]

I also loved how they switchd it around, right before Jon was going to blow up, it flashbacked to him as a young man with his father, I thought that was perfect.

 

[AVEITWITHJAMON]

^Exactly, which further emphasised the point that Jon knew how to pull his cells or 'component's' back together after by looking at it as fixing a watch. A touch I thought was presened brilliantly in the movie.

 

[Doctor Jones]

Yup, one of the things that made the film a thing of it's own. I just love how Snyder did that. It would of been easier to to a word for word panel to panel adaption (though the budget would be ****ing huge, though the writers and Snyder could of been lazy and just cut and pasted everything in) but Snyder didn't. I'm just glad it wasn't a cut and paste film.